BlockInlay
Octavate.band
I've been tinkering with the huge number of delay types and settings on my Kemper. It's pretty amazing what you can get out of this sucker. They just posted this demo/tutorial, it's long and glorious. Thought I'd share.
Those sound really cool, but when I look at the Kemper, this is what I see:
Totally agree. When I got mine home, I looked at it and thought "what have i done?" Especially when things are lit up and flashing.
To be completely honest, they put a ton of thought into the user interface of this thing (both onscreen and all the buttons and dials). Most functions are quite intuitive and you can customize just about anything you want, either globally or rig by rig (rig = preset for the most part). The inputs and outputs are also very intuitive, on the software side and the physical ports.
Plus, there are dedicated buttons for undo and redo. So every time I fuck something up, I can hit undo as many times as I need to.
But most importantly, the Kemper sounds AMAZING out of the box and the variety is endless.
I wish I could give one of those a try, but I am like bsman, those things are intimidating. I know I would end up getting sucked in and start messing with every parameter in it and spend way too much time tweaking and not enough time playing. I bet it is really fun to play with and the clips I have heard sound great.
Look at it less as an FX box and more of an amp room where you can plug into just about anything you want.
That makes it a little less appealing to me. I am more an FX guy. Give me a clean amp, a muff and a box that can do really good delays, reverbs and modulations and I would be happy. If there was an Eventide H9 that would allow 3 or so effects at the same time, that would be for me.